LETTERS: Still bedeviled by the details

Thank you for the very detailed presentation given to our subcommittee and the public on Aug. 12.

Patriot Staff

Editor’s note: This letter was addressed to Hyannis Fire District Commissioner Richard Gallagher, who chairs the district’s building committee.

Thank you for the very detailed presentation given to our subcommittee and the public on Aug. 12. After a review of the information provided and Growth Management stating that they did not require the fire station to have its public entrance on the corner of Stevens and High School Road Extension:

We again ask for the total cost of the project as proposed - including land, architect/design, building, site preparation and landscaping, relocation if still needed, demolition of church and current station, and proposed furnishings.

After the presentation of the needs on the 12th, can you really operate safely during a relocation of up to two years? We do not believe that you can and therefore continue our request to reverse the building so that the administrative functions would be at the CVS end of your property. Thus the new administrative functions and some of the bays could be built while you still operated out of the existing building. When the new administrative function is complete, the old fire station could be demolished and the remaining bays built.

After review of your stated needs, we continue to believe that the third floor can be eliminated. Taking out three staircases, an elevator, excessive space for some functions, many corridors and utilizing electronic storage instead of paper storage, we believe that all functions on the third floor would fit on the first two floors, especially if the vaulted ceiling over the antique fire truck was divided into two floors and the mezzanine on the second floor was utilized.

We continue to wait for the answers to our concerns expressed in the first two letters to your committee. In addition, we have the following questions:

• Maximum number of bunks currently in use at any one time versus the number in the plans

• How is the dispatch function staffed We look forward to our session on Aug. 28.